Russia said Friday it used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv and its Western allies as U.S.-led peace talks have entered a new and crucial stage. The hypersonic Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile hit Ukraine’s western Lviv region late Thursday night. The […]
A California man charged with handling tens of millions of dollars in a Chinese money-laundering operation supporting Mexican drug cartels is being held in federal detention in Ohio, the Justice Department said Thursday. Yan Lin, 41, appeared in federal court in Cincinnati and was described by prosecutors as a key member of a major Chinese […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz urged his state’s residents to tone it down as violent protests have erupted in the wake of Wednesday’s ICE-involved shooting, saying that sort of chaos could be used by President Trump to justify more vigorous federal intervention. Mr. Walz, a Democrat, took particular umbrage at the anger aimed at state and […]
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, will reportedly announce his retirement from Congress on Thursday. Mr. Hoyer’s impending retirement was first reported Wednesday evening by Politico. The 86-year-old Mr. Hoyer has been in the House since 1981, representing a district that includes Washington’s eastern suburbs and Southern Maryland. He rose to the No. 2 slot […]
Lawmakers from both parties debriefed on classified details of the capture of Nicholas Maduro say the daring U.S. operation was impressive, but that the administration owes Americans a fuller explanation for the raid. Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican who also sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, sees declassifying both the legal justification from […]
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it’s marketing Venezuelan crude oil for sale and will control the flow of crude from the South American country “indefinitely” as U.S. forces seized two sanctioned tankers in Atlantic waters. The administration is enlisting private companies and financial institutions to facilitate the sale of oil, insisting its aggressive efforts […]
California schools are once again required to hide the opposite-sex gender identities of students from their parents under an emergency stay issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.The court temporarily halted last month’s class-wide permanent injunction against the state’s mandate on transgender-student privacy pending the outcome of an appeal by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.The three-judge panel […]
CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday. Ames admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for […]
TLDR: Criminals trade “state hit lists” ranking which states have the weakest fraud protections, with Minnesota on those lists for years Fraudsters strategically target sympathetic programs like child care and housing because they know officials are reluctant to scrutinize aid for vulnerable populations State administrators often ignore the fraud because it’s federal money, not state […]
The administration is still reviewing more than 2 million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to see whether they should be released, government lawyers told a judge late Monday. That’s the universe of documents that have yet to be released and are “potentially responsive” to the new law requiring disclosure. The government said they are “in […]
